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New Recommended Website - Encore.org

My post from February 17th, " Encore! Choosing Your Second Career ," generated a comment from none other than the Managing Editor of the Encore website , Terry Nagel, who says the following: "There's plenty of help available for people considering "encore careers" on Encore.org, an online community created by Civic Ventures, the nonprofit Marc Freedman started for boomers who want to find meaningful work in the second half of life. Join the Encore community (it's free) and you'll keep abreast of new opportunities offered by public and private organizations helping to reframe retirement as an opportunity to work in paid jobs that contribute to the community. Oh, and you might want to buy the book, too!" Now I've already given the book my highest recommendation, so I took Terry's advice and visited www.encore.org . And though it's clear this site is fairly new, it is excellent, and it is clear that they are developing an online co